DeTomaso Mailing List: March 99, Message #142

In a message dated 3/5/99 6:19:45 PM, MikeLDrew@aol.com writes:
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<< On this one, I'd phone the vendors and get something from them.  It's
really ten times better than screwing around with a local alternator shop. >>

Correct; any modern hi-output alternator built in the past decade or so was
designed to run with a flat-belt drive, not a vee-belt. That not only means
you gotta pull the pulley & substitute your old one (which may or may not
fit), in a serpentine drive, the alternator spins backward to our vee-belt
units. There IS a field-wire brush in the rear of any alternator and I'm not
sure if it's angled to one side or another to favor the designed-for direction
of rotation. More questions.... J DeRyke